The Art of the Seine. These images have been completed over a period of ten seasons aboard various Purse Seine vessels out of South East Alaska and the Puget sound. Purse Seining is a method of fishing, scooping a net using a skiff and four men on deck piling the net as it comes aboard. A few of these photographs have been published in the National Fisherman Magazine and the Pacific Fisherman Magazine. They are part of a large body of work which is still being crafted to document the fishing industry and the society who pursues this ancient way of life.

Jay Lile rests after raking shrimp out of the fish hold of the Miss Pacific.

Deckhand Sam of the Miss Pacific eyes the tie-up lines of the Miss Pacific.

MEN AND MATERIALS: What is the curse and joy of men the world over? To produce and reap the product which comes from the toil.

                                          Mike Smith welds a stainless cleat onto the 73 ft fishing vessel the Haida.

Mary D. Hume, she served for 97 years as a fishing vessel, and tug boat.  She now rests on a sand bar on the outskirts of Gold Beach Oregon.

Crab line, Fisherman's storage. Brookings Oregon.